Monday, March 9, 2009

"Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit." / " No fort is so strong that it cannot be taken with money."Cicero

"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."Henry James

"Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die. " Max Asnas

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. "Dorothy Parker

"I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. "Amory Lovins

"Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. "Albert Jay Nock

"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.But Money gives me pleasure all the time."Hilaire Belloc

"In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. "Unknown Author

"Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. "Henrik Ibsen

"More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's."Jonathan Daniels

"How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!For this the foolish over-careful fathersHave broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,Their bones with industry."William Shakespeare

"Money is power, & you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it."Russell H. Conwell, Temple Univ, 1877

"In societies of low civilization, there is no money."Herbert Spencer

"Money is only good for a weekday, a holiday, and a rainy day."Russian Proverb

"Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. "George J.W. Goodman

"Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. "Alexandre Dumas son

"My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly... "Johhan Sebastian Bach

"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares."Daniel Defoe"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money. "Satchel Paige

"But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue. "Friedrich Nietzsche

"The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today."Chinese Proverb

"We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. "Arthur Hoppe

"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. "Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." Oscar Wilde

"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."Frank Hubbard

"Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace."Louisa May Alcott

"Remuneration! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings."William Shakespeare

"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. "Douglas Adams

"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. "Tennessee Williams

"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. "Clifford Odets

"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. "Ambrose Bierce

"What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money. " Henny Youngman

"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. "Logan Pearsall Smith

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."Francis Bacon

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."George Horace Lorimer

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. "Aeschylus

""Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. "Mignon McLaughlin

"An employer who pays well is never short of staff."

"I doubt there is any true courage," said he, "in squabbling for money."Anthony Trollope

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. "Sam Ewing

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. "Bob Hope

"Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. "Max Amsterdam

"You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . . "Walter Scott

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. "Kin Hubbard

"The most popular labor-saving device is still money. "Phyllis George

"I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that. I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. "Naomi Campbell

"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. "J. Paul Getty

"We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. ~"Alexander Pope

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains. "Robert Frost

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."Woody Allen

"Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough. "Mignon McLaughlin

"With money you can buy a clock , but no time."Chinese proverb

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. 'Albert Camus

"A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich. "Jacob Astor

"To make a million, start with $900,000. " Morton Shulman

"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. "Voltaire

"A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels."Harry Lauder

"Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind. "Kay Ingram

"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them. "Mignon McLaughlin

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. " Unknown Author

"Corruptio optimi pessima." / "Corruption of the best is worst'Latin Proverb

"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them."La Bruyere

"Money often costs too much. "Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. "Frank McKinney

"There are three ways of losing money: racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. " Lord Amherst

"When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."Voltaire

"It's not easy to get money. We have to work hard to make money. We can't just walk around and pick it like fruit from the tress."

"The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. "M.W. Harrison

"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. "Kahlil Gibran

"I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.Ron Kittle

"Poverty is no disgrace, but it's also no great honour."Yiddish

":Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."Thornton Wilder

"You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. "John Barrymore

"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. " Henry Fielding

"It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. "Groucho Marx

"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. "Euripides

"We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. "Thomas Carlyle

"We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. "Buzzie Bavasi

"Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. " George Raft

"I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. "Victor Borge

"A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. "Nathaniel Hawthorne

"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."Thomas Wolfe

"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. "Alan Alda

"There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. "Robert Benchley

"To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it. "Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. "H.L. Mencken

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. "Oscar Wilde

"Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence."Herman Melville

"With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too."Yiddish Proverb

"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. "Jean-Paul Kauffmann

"Don't marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. 'Scott Proberb

"Pecunia non olet" / " Money has no smell."Vespasianus

"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. "Carl Sandburg

"I am having an out of money experience. " Unknown Author

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. "Aristotle Onassis

"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. "Kin Hubbard

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. "Robert Orben

"With money you can buy blood , but no life."Chinese proverb

"Money is much more exciting than anything it buys."Mignon McLaughlin

"The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. "Oscar Wilde

"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. "Zig Ziglar

"It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. "P.J.O'Rourke

"If you have money, it will serve you and work for you well. But if you owe money to other people, that money will control you in an unpleasant way."

"Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us,The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,We bargain for the graves we lie in;At the devil's booth are all things sold,Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold;For a cap and bells our lives we pay.Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking,'Tis heaven alone that is given away,'Tis only God may be had for the asking,No price is set on the lavish summer;June may be had by the poorest comer."James Russell Lowell

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."W.Somerset Maugham

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. "Arthur Schopenhauer

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. "George Burns

"I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor: Rich is better. —"Sophie Tucker

"Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will."George Elliot

"Money often costs too much."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . . . to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience."John D. Rockefeller

"One of the strange things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it. "Finley Peter Dunne

"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. "Samuel Butler

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."Mohandas K. Ghandi

"I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood. "Brooke Shields

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. "Henry Wheeler Shaw

"A heart free from care is better than a full purse."Proverb from Saudi Arabia

"There are other important things in this world, not just money."

"When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. "Mignon McLaughlin

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. "Jackie Mason

"I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money. "Bob Hope

"People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. "Doug Larson

"He who has money can eat ice cream in hell."Lebanon Proverb

"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. "Mark Twain

"I cannot afford to waste my time making money. "Louis Agassiz

"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."Marian Wright Edelman

"Nervos belli , pecuniam. ' / " The nerve of war, money. "Cicero

"I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. "Mignon McLaughlin

"Economy," I remarked, putting my hands in my pockets, "is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something which you probably won't want."Anthony Hope

"I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day. "Linda Evangelista

"The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you."Katherine Witherhorn

"When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life and now that I am old, I know it is.” Oscar Wilde

"With money you can buy a bed , but no sleep."Chinese proverb

"Stupid people spend their money carelessly and soon become poor."

"He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. "William Shakespeare

"Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. "Max Beerbohm

"If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. "George Gobel

"There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. "Spencer Tracy

"God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."Jean Anouilh

"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. " Michael Pritchard

"I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. "Amory Lovins

"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. "John Locke"I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser. "Osbert Sitwell

"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery. 'Beverly Johnson"Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. "Albert Jay Nock

"If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits."Saki

"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.But Money gives me pleasure all the time."Hilaire Belloc

"I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. " Joe Louis

"We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed. "Chris Rock

"Poverty is the common face of all scholars."Chinese Proverb

"In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. "Unknown Author

"Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. "Henrik Ibsen

"Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. "George Carlin

"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. "Shaquille O'Neal

"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy."Izaak Walton

"For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value."Adolf Hitler

"How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!For this the foolish over-careful fathersHave broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,Their bones with industry."William Shakespeare

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. "George J.W. Goodman

"Abite nummi , ego vos mergam , ne mergar a vobis"/ Away with you, money, I will sink you that I may not be sunk by you.Latin Proverb

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. "Paul Getty

"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some. "Benjamin Franklin

"Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment."George Gissing